Distributor for concrete mixers



Patented Dec. 8, 1925.

UNITED STTES PATET EC'E.

CHRISTIAN J. HUG, OF HIGHLAND, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE HUG COLV'IPANY,0F HIGHLAND, ILLINOIS, A. CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

DISTRIBUTOR FOR CGNCRETE MIXERS.

Application filed November 22, 1923.

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Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN J. HUG, a citizen ot the United States ofAmerica, residing at Highland, in the county of Madison and State otIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDistribiitors tor Concrete Mixers, ot which. the :following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in distributors for concretemixers, and has for its object to provideI mechanism for receiving thedischarge from the mixer, elevating the material so received, anddischarging the same into a suitable vehicle. The invention is adaptedfor use where it is desired to deposit the mixed concrete in place atvariable distance from the mixer, as in road building In the drawings-Fig. 1 is a side elevation ot an apparatus embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, parts being broken away.

In the embodiment of my invention shown in the dra-wings the concretemixing mechanism 3 is carried on sills 4 provided with wheels 5. Thesills 4 support the uprights (i and the top beam 8 and horizontal,forwardly extending beam 9. The inclined b lace 10 is secured to thebeams 8 and 9.

Surmounting the frame so formed is the fixed arm 11 suitably pert'oatedto receive the hook 12 and the block 13.

(1o-operating with the block 13 is the block 14 having a hook 15 toengage the eye 16 on the bail 17.

The bucket 18 has the transverse shaft 19 secured to its bottom, saidshaft 19 carrying at its ends the guide-rollers Q10-20, whichguide-rollers 2O lit within the channelled guide 21; said guide 21having the lower extension 22 secured thereto by the hinge 23. When saidextension 22 is in its operative position its lower end is in contactwith the Surface 24 whereon the concrete mixer rests, and is held insuch position by the hook 25, as shown in Fig. 1, in which position saidhook 25 engages a hole 26 in the sill 4. When the apparatus is to bemoved said hook 25 will be disengaged from said. sill 4 and engaged withthe hole 27 in the upright 7, thus bringing the lower end of theextension member 22 (which is channeled to correspond with the guide 21)out Serial No. 676,433.

of Contact with the Surface supporting the wheels 5.

It is essential to the mode of operation of my device that theguide-rollers 20-20 be vat all times seated in the channelled guide 21.

At or near the top of the bucket 18 and at each side thereof is aguideroller 28 which is arranged to ride in the channel ot' the curvedchanneled guide-member 29,

rIlhe bucket 18 being filled, a pull on the rope will operate throughthe blocks 13-14 to raise said bucket 18'to the elevated and dumpingposition illustrated by means ot dotted lines in Fig. 1, in whichposition the content ot said bucket 18 is discharged into a suitablevehicle 31 for removal to its place of ultimate deposit.

The guide-members 21-29 are secured in place by being attached to thebeam 9 and brace 32.

The content being discharged 'from the bucket 18 the rope 30 is relaxedto permit the bucket 18 to liall back to its lowermost and receptiveposition.v

Various structural modifications of the device as illustrated andabove-described may be made without departing from my invention, whoseobjects will be accomplished by any suitable guiding and elevating meansto raise the bucketecontent from the point at which it was received fromthe dischargespout 33, to a point where, being tilted, it will bedischarged into a suitable distributing vehicle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a distributor for concrete mixers a bucket having a shaft securedto its bottom; guide-rollers mounted on the ends of said shaft; achanneled guide-member and a hinged lower extension thereof wherein saidguide-rollers travel; other guide-rollers mounted on the sides of saidbucket; a. channeled guide-member arranged to receive said last-namedguide-rollers; a bail aiiixed to said shaft and arranged to draw thebucket upwardly, its guide-rollers traveling in said guide-members, andtilting said bucket to discharge its contents.

2. In a distributor for concrete mixers a bucket having a shaft securedto its bottom; guide-rollers mounted on the ends of sait` shaft; achanneled guide-member and a hinged lower extension thereof wherein Saidguide-rollers travel.; the lower extenio'n'ot cei've said*lust-namedguide-rollers; lu bail 10 ziiixedto-v Said shift nel arranged' td drawthe bucket upwardly, its guide-rollers traveling' Vin saidguide-members, and tilting said bucket to discharge its contents.

In testimony whereot have hereunto afl5 fixed 'my `Si gnature.'-

CH'RSTIAN J. HUG.

